c. AD 94

J. AJ 18.147

The Antiquities of the Jews 18.147

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

18.147

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

1472. For these reasons he went away from Rome, and sailed to Judea, but in evil circumstances, being dejected with the loss of that money which he once had, and because he had not wherewithal to pay his creditors, who were many in number, and such as gave him no room for escaping them. Whereupon he knew not what to do; so, for shame of his present condition, he retired to a certain tower, at Malatha, in Idumea, and had thoughts of killing himself;